View Full Version : Am I nuts, or was this real? (Sonic 2 oddity)
MrSmiley381
08-17-2005, 01:09 PM
OK, guys. I *think* I had something strange happen to me one time when I was playing Sonic 2. This was a long while back. For all I know, I might've been dreaming this as I slept, since I played it so much.
OK, here's what happened:
I was playing the third area, Act 2, and I was at the Robotnik fight. This was the one where he hammers the totem poles and they shoot arrows. I believe I was fighting him for a very long time, and running low on time. He just flew away, and the totems went down as if I won. Then, I jumped on the capsule and chili dogs and cheese flew out.
So, was I dreaming this one day, or is this somehow possible?
I hope I'm not crazy. @_@
MegaDrive20XX
08-17-2005, 01:14 PM
Must have been a dream O_O
In this case scenario..."Chili Dogs and Sonic 2 marathons are a lonelllyy mix"
chicnstu
08-17-2005, 01:15 PM
Whoa! Never had that happen.
Did you search Google to see if anyone else has done this?
chrisbid
08-17-2005, 01:28 PM
i know in the US cartoon he talked about chili dogs
perhaps a juxtoposition in your dream?
MrSmiley381
08-17-2005, 01:41 PM
That seems logical. Does anyone know of a way where you can observe all of the sprites in the game extracted from a ROM or something? (Note: Not a condoning of piracy.) Maybe I could finally know for sure whether or not I was cracked out. And I did check Google, with the Ashura trick being the only real bug I found.
chrisbid
08-17-2005, 01:43 PM
That seems logical. Does anyone know of a way where you can observe all of the sprites in the game extracted from a ROM or something? (Note: Not a condoning of piracy.) Maybe I could finally know for sure whether or not I was cracked out. And I did check Google, with the Ashura trick being the only real bug I found.
you can see all of the sprites in the debug mode (the code for getting this is common knowledge and can be found on pretty much any site with genny codes)
MrSmiley381
08-17-2005, 01:50 PM
Hmmm... well, the Chili dogs/cheese would've functioned like animals, but I'm not sure if they'd appear in the debug thing. But, it's worth a shot. I'll try it and see.
Edit: The animals that jump out of the capsules can't be shown using debug mode. The only other way is some good ROM hacking. Or rendering me unconscious so we can stop this psycho babble.
Cryomancer
08-17-2005, 03:23 PM
Well, Sonic Cult has recentely been arguing over the existance of a revision of one of the Sonic gmes having pigs in them, but I've never heard chili dogs mentioned there (other then as a dumb joke to spite the cartoons), and they have seen everything there is to see in the roms.
importaku
08-17-2005, 03:48 PM
Playing sonic 2 causes hallucinations it seems LOL
evil_genius
08-17-2005, 03:58 PM
You must have been dreaming. You were probably hungry.
MrSmiley381
08-17-2005, 04:22 PM
Yes, but at the time, I neither liked chili dogs, nor did I like cheese.
Hallucinations, it is, then. Also, get me a link to that Sonic site.
Also, 100 posts. WOOO. 100 posts and no ban! I'd like to thank you all at this community for being cool enough to make me want to stay.
Wavelflack
08-17-2005, 05:58 PM
How can you not like cheese?
MrSmiley381
08-17-2005, 06:18 PM
How can you not like cheese?
Because it makes me poo. And I don't like the taste.
So which one of you is going to be the first to call the psychiatric ward to come and pick me up?
On the other hand, this frequently happened to me while playing Sonic 3: if you beat Robotnik before the water lowered all the way to Sonic's waist in Hydrocity Act 2, then raced toward the capsule, sometimes the capsule wouldn't appear at all.
Jorpho
08-17-2005, 09:29 PM
Where did this "Ashura" come from?
Wavelflack
08-17-2005, 09:33 PM
How can you not like cheese?
Because it makes me poo. And I don't like the taste.
So which one of you is going to be the first to call the psychiatric ward to come and pick me up?
If you don't like the taste of cheese, you might as well skip the psychiatric ward and head straight to the funeral home. I don't think there would be much point in going on.
TheRedEye
08-17-2005, 10:35 PM
Because it makes me poo. And I don't like the taste.
You're not supposed to eat it.
Haoie
08-18-2005, 08:35 PM
Sonic 2 does have pigs, you know.
They only appear in Casino Night Zone, and since there are so few enemies there, you usually only see them when you pop the top, so to speak.
Doonzmore
08-19-2005, 01:08 AM
Very sorry to derail the interesting thread but a few years back (holiday season 2001) i recieved a copy of Sonic Adventure 2 for Dreamcast from a relative of mine. During Christmas vacation one afternoon i was playing one of Knuckles levels (Death Chamber) and around that time I was coming down with an awful cold. When I reached for a tissue i paused the game and instead of the Start Options menu a thin box appeared that said "Suffering from a stuffed nose?"
Looking back on it i wish i would have inserted a tape and recorded it. :(
Cryomancer
08-19-2005, 04:41 AM
MrSmiley381
Google for Sonic Cult if you want it, be warned that it is a less-than-friendly community.
Jorpho:
Ahsura is some pallete glitch that ends up turning sonic green, it's since evolved into a joking fan character and some hacks, if I remember correctly.
Doonzmore:
Many Dreamcast games have special featues if you play them around easter/halloween/christmas ect. Most of the Sonic Team games at least.
Cauterize
08-19-2005, 06:07 AM
I *think* I had something strange happen to me one time when I was playing Sonic 2.
I jumped on the capsule and chili dogs and cheese flew out.
is this somehow possible?
I hope I'm not crazy. @_@
Of course your not crazy.... look!
http://www.retrogamedepot.com/Sonic.png
demen999
08-19-2005, 09:35 AM
LOL Cauterize only graphic designers like us would take time out to do something like that ^^^^
Funny none the less.....
As far as the topic is concerned, I never had anything remotely close to this incident happen to me at all......but yeah it's one of the juxa-thingys
MrSmiley381
08-19-2005, 04:12 PM
OH GOD THE CHILI DOGS, I CAN'T THEM OFF I CAN'T GET THEM OFF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Nice edit, btw.
Muscelli
08-19-2005, 04:46 PM
I believe you, bro.. was the cart a "not for resale" version? I have one of those, and kinda want to see for some more weird stuff since this game appearently has a lot.. hmm
This one time, I was playing shenmue, and I left the game un-paused.. came back a few minutes later, and it had a video of Lan DI KILLING ryo.. Then it said game over..
TheRedEye
08-19-2005, 06:00 PM
This one time, I was playing shenmue, and I left the game un-paused.. came back a few minutes later, and it had a video of Lan DI KILLING ryo.. Then it said game over..
Wow, you must have really sucked at Shenmue, since the only way to get that ending is not being it in like two months of play time.
MrSmiley381
08-19-2005, 07:12 PM
I believe you, bro.. was the cart a "not for resale" version? I have one of those, and kinda want to see for some more weird stuff since this game appearently has a lot.. hmm
This one time, I was playing shenmue, and I left the game un-paused.. came back a few minutes later, and it had a video of Lan DI KILLING ryo.. Then it said game over..
The copy I have now isn't.
But I think the one I had ages back actually might've been. Although, I can't see why Sega would change something so... absurd.
Cauterize
08-19-2005, 07:20 PM
LOL Cauterize only graphic designers like us would take time out to do something like that ^^^^
;)
Muscelli
08-22-2005, 11:29 AM
This one time, I was playing shenmue, and I left the game un-paused.. came back a few minutes later, and it had a video of Lan DI KILLING ryo.. Then it said game over..
Wow, you must have really sucked at Shenmue, since the only way to get that ending is not being it in like two months of play time.
it was at the part where u needed to sneak to the warehouse district, It was the week i bought it